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@GASEOUS I didn’t say that was its sole purpose, I just find its timing interesting. Didn’t you or was it just a coincidence?

You do know these things do happen in business though right?

Love that cult of the lamb post haha

It seems nvidia’s attempt to take away from the pssr2 launch has massively backfired.

Cool just turned my pro on excitedly to update but didn’t realise it likely won’t arrive until the morning in the uk. Nevermind just one more day to wait!

Rebirth will be my first port of call seeing as I wanted to go back and mop up some side stuff I missed the first time around.

Thanks to the lack of pro option again Sony.

I mean you’d think any company would want to treat all its customers equally, especially when the customers you ignore have paid for your most expensive product. If anything shouldn’t it be the pro that gets plates not the OG? lol

This really irritates me as a consumer. I mean they’ve gone to the trouble of producing these in the first place, how hard can it be to add one extra mould to the production?

This looks and sounds like it’s been in development since 1989

@UltimateOtaku91 I mean they had Japan studio and closed them down. It felt like they didn’t give a crap about Japan for a good period of time which of course isn’t true but how it looked by their actions.

I wonder to what extent them moving their HQ from Japan to California has made a difference?

@Marquez is actually cheaper at Argos and smiths toys at 49.99 anyway!

Most of those pc players probably pirate their games anyway and likely wouldn’t pay for it even if it released on pc.

Also probably part of the reason pc sales are so poor in the first place…

It’s nice to have but so system intensive I do wonder if it’s worth the trade off.

@BAMozzy yes I understand that, please don’t be patronising. It’s you that’s missed my point…

Microsoft setting up terms with steam in that to allow steam onto Xbox and therefore giving steam access to ‘x’ number of new gamers, all purchases would come with a commission if made via Xbox. It may be that MS’s allowance of steam comes with them wanting a cut which would be understandable. Steam get access to more players and therefore more sales so is a win/win.

Not saying this is the case but it’s a way MS could make money from a setup like this that the article didn’t highlight.

They must be taking the piss. “To pay the bills” haha like the bills aren’t being paid already 🤣

“Microsoft will not see a cent from any of this”

Not necessarily true if MS strike a deal with steam to allow the platform to be put in front of Xbox gamers. MS could take a 10% cut for example anything bought via Xbox.

With the price of components increasing so much the pro’s at its best value since it launched and pssr2 definitely looks like it’ll build on that.

Got mine day 1 and it’s a superb bit of kit. Really looking forward to seeing the next wave of releases with the pssr update.

@Fiendish-Beaver no worries let me know how you get on!

@dark_knightmare2 nope.

I’m guilty of the hype and ended up buying the resi 4 remake seeing as I’ve not played it since it came out on the GameCube!

@Fiendish-Beaver honestly it’s the best money you could spend on the switch in my opinion and made me actually want to game on the system. Couldn’t imagine playing the Zelda’s or Metroid without it.

The S2 version has a few nice upgrades too like programmable back buttons and super silent/smooth sticks. It’s actually become my favourite controller and the battery lasts probably double the dualsense.

“We want to ensure that when you spend in Marathon you feel like you are getting great value”

Hold up am I missing something, was $10 for a skin ever good value? Especially when before this update you’d have to buy double to have enough credit to actually afford it.

I feel like it was Shu who championed many of the smaller, left field Sony releases in the past. He was a very highly respected figure and without him I’m not sure Sony has an equal replacement. It could be part of the reason we’re seeing less risks being taken.

I’m really glad Sony have made a smaller budget game and think it’s something they should do more of to pad out the release schedule and give old forgotten franchises a new lease of life.

This particular game though doesn’t interest me sadly. Don’t like the art style and the metacritic has done nothing to sway me over when there’s so many other games I’d rather play before it.

@Fiendish-Beaver just out of interest I take it you’ve tried the pro controller on switch/2? I’m the same with the joycon can’t stand them but the pro’s are superb, especially the switch 2 version.

@Boomers-r-us yes but in my case I’d foolishly backed up my old ps5 to usb and wiped it as I had a buyer.

It wasn’t until I set up my pro it became apparent you can no longer transfer via memory card 🤦‍♂️

@Boomers-r-us ah is my fault really. I stopped subbing to ps+ but didn’t know the only way to transfer save files on ps5 was through the cloud. Thought you could do it via usb stick like I did on my ps4 but no…

Sucks Sony put save file transfers behind a paywall.

After losing all my save files when I got my pro (🤬) I’ve wanted to replay Astrobot which I’m doing this weekend.

It’s as good as I remember and looks absolutely stunning on the pro!

@Haruki_NLI exactly you’d think these large corporations would be less clueless or at least do their due diligence in gaming budgets! 🤦‍♂️

Dynamic pricing works with supply and demand. Due to the nature of digital game sales the supply is effectively infinite meaning it can only work on the demand side.

That likely means higher prices will occur for popular games (to maximise profit) and lower prices for games not selling well (to stimulate sales).

This is a crappy move in my opinion and something to be concerned about an all digital future.

Feel like Capcom have a higher output than all of Sony’s first parties combined!

I have zero interest in anything Xbox. I don’t like what the brand and Microsoft have become and I was an OG and 360 gamer.

They seem to be pissing in the wind generation after generation. Good luck to them but they lost me years ago.

@dskatter I think you’re right but just different timing. I believe nadella wants to merge Xbox into pc/windows spanning over one last console generation.

Or something.

I got round to playing kena after seeing the sequel announcement and it was really enjoyable.

Hope they tweak the combat in the second game and add a fast swim button, it was so slooooow…

@Voltan ah yeah thanks for clearing that up, my old cranky brain couldn’t remember what games they were!

Weren’t there a few PC announcements in the recent state of play or am I imagining that?

@get2sammyb nice write up dude.

Second son was such a fun game, the controls were sublime

Sony are in the driving seat and I feel this is a good strategy to take if it wants to pull ahead further.

Also don’t most/many of gamers pirate their games? Possibly helps explain the low sales of first party on pc.

My nostalgic self loves living in a world where capcom are smashing it and Konami are making a strong comeback!

This looks bonkers and a welcome change to all the open world and souls likes I’ve been playing recently!

@Topov81 ah sweet I didn’t know that thanks!

@Topov81 yeah I enjoyed wreckfest, is the sequel an actual thing?

With no console footage and only high end pc shown off so far doesn’t give me massive confidence if only because it looks so ambitious.

I just hope they’re really talented devs and have worked some magic!

I totally get why sequels are made as they sell well but thanks to the high risk these days it’s sad to think these studios are becoming just same franchise studios.

To me this makes the closure of bluepoint even worse when they could’ve been remaking some more left field, lower seller remakes that fans are clamouring for to mix things up like sly cooper, Jak, wipeout, infamous or whatever.

They needed Sony for the first game but after its success they don’t any longer!

@Kumatz I’m not massive on remakes but infamous I’d definitely be down for.

Damn you sony bluepoint could’ve done that!

@BusyOlf yeah games do that annoy me. Cyberpunk was a poor culprit also. Surely it can’t take much for them to “optimise” the menu controls for console?

@PuppetMaster they should’ve got bluepoint to remaster this 😅

I was kind and voted it’s dying but really it does already seem as alive as bluepoint at this stage.

If Sony took resources away from their single player bread and butter development for live service, then psvr resources would’ve gone long before that.

Is a shame and another lovely bit of hardware that they spent a fortune developing left to rot like my beloved vita.

@ZeD I think it’s where they extract as much money from you as possible over a certain amount of time 😅

Yeah while GT7 is unlikely in still slightly hopeful we’ll get a Forza on switch 2 at some point!

“it’s not like any of us are any less disappointed about that news because Wolverine now has a date, huh?”

No but it’’s purpose (if intentional) was about changing the narrative not trying to fix disappointment.